Originally designated Tropical Depression #35 using a numbering system
which spanned both the
eastern Pacific and Atlantic Basins, this system was the 19th
depression in the Atlantic Basin during
the 1970 hurricane season. A strong tropical wave moved off
the coast of Africa on September 23rd,
becoming a tropical depression soon after moving into the tropical
Atlantic. The depression moved
just north of due west, reaching the Lesser Antilles by October
1st. The system moved through the
eastern Caribbean sea before turning northward on the 5th and 6th,
moving across the Dominican
Republic on the morning of the 8th. The depression weakened as it
turned eastward a few hundred
miles of Puerto Rico, and moved well southeast of Bermuda on the
11th. The graphics
below show
the storm total rainfall for the tropical depression...data
was provided by the National Climatic Data
Center in Asheville, NC. This is the wettest known tropical
cyclone to impact Puerto Rico.